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...pretty little town. Since 1830 several houses had unfortunately been built on the farther side of the bridge. If this sort of suburb increases, the pl... ... springing up, then to the hill-slopes covered with copses which ex- tend, on the left, from Nemours to Bouron. He could hear in the valley of the Loi... ...ours to Bouron. He could hear in the valley of the Loing, where the sounds on the road were echoed back from the hills, the trot of his own horses and... ...puce- colored gowns with flat sleeves, the cut of which can be seen in the portraits of Madame Lebrun; they all have black lace mantles and bonnets of... ...d Simeuse naval heroes? On the paneled wall opposite to the fireplace were portraits of the Vicomte de Portenduere and of the mother of the old lady, ... ... three thousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the Britis... ...lve thou- sand francs each; also, from the preceding volume, a num- ber of banknotes. ‘He is,’ said my godfather, ‘the cause of all the trouble which ... ...wed you in your dreams—where he said that he placed those certificates and banknotes.” Ursula and the abbe went up to the library and took down the th...

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...beauty is soon past and gone to a husband. As to the insig- nificant youth on whom the clerk of the court bestowed in baptism his Norman name of “Exup... ...a couple of circles as it were, slightly apart. If you have never observed on the human face the effect produced by these circumfer- ences placed one ... ...a type which painters give to cats. This double resemblance was observable on the face of Babylas Latournelle. Above the atrocious green spectacles ro... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...rapped up in 87 Balzac these sweet scraps of paper; they were to him what banknotes are to a miser; while in Modeste’s soul a deep love took the plac... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo... ...e Canalis,—Ah! my friend, my well-beloved! What atrocious falsehoods those portraits in the shop- windows are! And I, who made that horrible lithograp...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort...

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...CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 IT WA S SUNDAY, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car co... ...ook his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, ... ...f vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna’s ... ... were a small marble-topped centre table covered with back numbers of “The American System of Den- tistry,” a stone pug dog sitting before the little ... ...knew absolutely nothing further than that she 17 Frank Norris was Spanish-American. Miss Baker was the oldest lodger in the flat, and Maria was a fix... ...at one time possessed of an incalculable fortune derived from some Central American coffee plan- tation, a fortune long since confiscated by armies of... ...rmance was resumed. A lightning artist ap- peared, drawing caricatures and portraits with incredible swiftness. He even went so far as to ask for subj... ...d the names of prominent men were shouted to him from the gallery. He drew portraits of the President, of Grant, of Washington, of Napoleon Bonaparte,... ...piness for money; he had bartered all his tardy romance for some miserable banknotes. He had not foreseen that it would be like this. A vast regret we...

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...om her seat at the desk. She tried to grasp her husband, but her hand fell on a cold place. Her terror became so intense that she could not move her n... ... shape of his head. “Can he be dead? Has he killed himself? Why?” she went on. “For the last two years, since they made him deputy- mayor, he is all-I... ...im deputy- mayor, he is all-I-don’t-know-how. To put him into public life! On the word of an honest woman, isn’t it pitiable? His business is doing we... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ..., hung with old damask and draped with curtains in brocatelle, con- tained portraits of duchesses and other royalist tributes; also a superb Popinot, ... ...fits. The pig is penned up with his potatoes, and the rest of us wallow in banknotes. There it all is, my good sir. Come, go into the business with us...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on boar...

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...o by Alexandre Dumas [Père] Volume One Chapter 1 Marseilles — The Arrival. ON THE 24TH OF F EBRUARY, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde sign... ... As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and ... ...t the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city. The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made bet... ...lack hair and beard, which gave his head the appearance of one of Titian’s portraits. At this period it was not the fashion to wear so large a beard a... ...r fresh-laid eggs. Caderousse had once more parted with his treasure — the banknotes were replaced in the pocket-book, the gold put back into the bag,... ...y by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard — I am a cosmopolite. No country can say it saw my ... ...Mithridates rex Ponticus,” said the young scamp, as he tore some beautiful portraits out of a splendid album, “the individual who took cream in his cu...

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...young, valiant, patient of fatigue, and despising danger, heading his army on foot in the most toilsome marches, and defeating a regular force in thre... ...ir lives, like the course of a shooting-star, at which men wonder, as well on account of the briefness, as the brilliancy of its splendour. A long tra... ...h the insurrection of 1745-6 was but a small part precipitated into action on the failure of a far more general scheme, was resumed and again put into... ...f the poor gentleman were gathered to his hundred and eight fathers, whose portraits adorn the ancient walls of Holyrood; the broadswords have passed ... ...rhino you are so flush of?’ ‘I will give you earnest directly, and that in banknotes,’ said I; but thrusting my hand into my side-pocket, I found my p... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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...and bring him back to life—with the help of powerful and will- ing friends on both sides of the Atlantic. The following docu- ments tell the story: 10... ...e criminal to delay any longer calling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many ... ...ment has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals made to the American Minister at Paris; and in spite of subse- quent action taken by th... ...pite of subse- quent action taken by the State Department at Wash- ington, on the initiative of my friend, Hon. . 4 The Enormous Room The victims are... ...e initiative of my friend, Hon. . 4 The Enormous Room The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambridge, Mass., and... ...ittle later a second cable advising that Edward Estlin Cummings had sailed on the Antilles and was reported lost. iii. A week later a third cable corr... ...esent by separating, one after one, his monied fellow-prisoners from their banknotes. He is, by all odds, the coolest player that I ever watched. Noth... ...LL APOLLY Y Y Y YON ON ON ON ON THE INHABITANTS of The Enormous Room whose portraits I have attempted in the preceding chapter, were, with one or two ...

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... The owner of the carriage looked anxious and out of health; the thin hair on his sallow temples, turning gray already, gave a look of premature age t... ...of premature age to his face. He flung the reins to a servant who followed on horseback, and alighted to take in his arms a young girl whose dainty be... ... young girl whose dainty beauty had already attracted the eyes of loungers on the Terrasse. The little lady, standing upon the carriage step, gracious... ...ers, as if the heyday of love still lin- gered on for these septuagenarian portraits of the age of Louis Quinze, with the faint perfume of poudre a la... ..., and the rest of his body in shadow, he looked like one of Raphael’s dark portraits of himself—a bent head and intent eyes filled with visions of the... ...he. “No,” said the other, now in the saddle. “He left the bu- reau full of banknotes and gold untouched.” “It was revenge, then,” said the Marquis. “O... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th... ...the soul, even the sentiment of motherhood. Painters have colors for these portraits, but words, and the mental images called up by words, fail to rep...

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...y lad of about fifteen, and taller than any of us. His hair was cut square on his forehead like a village chorister’s; he looked reliable, but 4 Mada... ... as attentive as if at a sermon, not daring even to cross his legs or lean on his elbow; and when at two o’clock the bell rang, the master was obliged... ...us. When we came back to work, we were in the habit of throw- ing our caps on the ground so as to have our hands more free; we used from the door to t... ...l in a white dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of English ladies with fair curls, who looked at you from under t... ...d the wealthy woman seems to have, about her, to guard her virtue, all her banknotes, like a cuirass in the lining of her corset. On leaving the Bovar... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ... ...nted him to dress all in black, and grow a pointed beard, to look like the portraits of Louis XIII. She wanted to see his lodgings; thought them poor....

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...be in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this ?landowner?--for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate--was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after t...

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...er”—for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met w... ...te was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men’s tables, and fastened on them as a toady , yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred tho... ...ho was always of a voluptuous temper, and ready to run after any petticoat on the slightest encourage- ment. She seems to have been the only woman who... ... as are sold for a few farthings at all the fairs. On the other walls were portraits of Russian bish- ops, past and present. Miusov took a cursory gla... ...ered with white paper, which was torn in many places, there hung two large portraits—one of some prince who had been governor of the district thirty y... ...itch grew more and more surprised; he suddenly caught sight of a bundle of banknotes in Mitya’s hand, and what was more, he had walked in holding the ... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...